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Agronomist and Arable Farmer July 13th
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Bayer has announced the European launch of its global Carbon Initiative. Five farmers from the UK and more than twenty others from across Europe will be working with Bayer to investigate how to decarbonise the food value chain. The initiative brings together farmers and food value chain players to explore future reward structures for farmers implementing new carbon reduction practices …
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Limagrain UK has two Group 4 hard wheats on the AHDB Candidate List for 2021/22: LG Farrier and LG Typhoon. Each variety offers UK growers a very different set of agronomic characteristics for on-farm positioning and performance, explains Limagrain UK’s arable technical manager, Ron Granger. “LG Farrier (Evolution x Costello) sits at 105% of treated yield control, alongside competitors from …
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The July 2021 issue is now available online! Packed full of news, features and comments, including: News: Be Vigilant For Blight News Analysis: Grants For Water Quality Agronomy Matters: New Software For Practical Planning Agronomy Matters: Early Root Development Key Renewables: Decarbonisation Initiative Cover Crops: Cover Crops Need Care Cover Crops: Putting Science Into Biological Farming Events: Cereals Back After Hiatus …
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GeoPard has announced their integration with the MyJohnDeere Operations Center. MyJohnDeere customers can now seamlessly upload their data into the GeoPard system, where they can do an advanced data analysis, compare information to other data sets, and create detailed Variable Rate Application (VRA) maps for seeding, fertilizing and spraying. These maps can then be wirelessly sent back to the MyJohnDeere Operations …
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Vining peas can yield up to 1.5 tonnes per hectare more if they are planted after a cover crop, work carried out by the Processors and Growers Research Organisation and the Green Pea Company (GPC) has shown. Increased soil moisture retention during dry periods in the spring and summer is believed to be a key contributing factor, driven by cover …
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Last year Frontier committed to providing a safer and more efficient collection only service for grain samples. Following feedback last harvest that more support was needed on how to sample, Frontier has produced two YouTube videos and a poster to support its customers and help them make the transition to successful sampling on farm. Farmer Paul Myhill at Hardingham Farms …
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With tuber bulking being such a critical, yet energy sapping period in potato crop development, now is the time to consider nutrition applications to support crop health and maintain tuber growth. If crops are lacking potassium and sulphur at cell expansion during tuber bulking this can lead to various issues, explained FMC crop nutrition technical manager, Chris Bond. “The requirement …
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With disease pressure high and the crop protection programme for cereals concluded, yet another challenging season of twists and turns is heading to an interesting culmination. Cereals have good potential, however, with the high level of disease pressure, realising that potential will be dependent on the spray programme that growers have used. The crop protection programme for potatoes is, on …
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Natural England has launched the first round of Discovery Grants, as part of the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme, to help support the development of new projects which seek to restore peatland systems to a natural and healthy state across the country. Through the Scheme, the Government intends to invest over £50 million in peat restoration and has pledged …
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